Someone sent three fully armed boats to High Tortuga to back again the slave-owners running the mines, and Barnabas and Shinigami are determined to find out who. And consider them down. Because they look deeper, nevertheless, they’ll discover traces of a business that controls entire mercenary syndicates, industries, and even government authorities: the Yennai Company. They have programs for this sector of space, and they are not about to let humans interfere. So they will kill Barnabas, and they are likely to make a good example of the mine employees he freed. After all, who’s going to end them? Barnabas is definitely one human in one dispatch. They’re sure they can consider him out.